🚀 go-pugleaf

Michael Starks (mjs@wn.net) wrote:
: "Thomas Kruemmer" <tkruemmer@usa.net> wrote:

: >Earl H. Kinmonth <kusogari@shef.ac.uk> wrote in article
: ><55icf0$mna@bignews.shef.ac.uk>...

: >> And, for the record, it is not that difficult to buy mail order from the
: >> US....

: >Earl, this is brillant, please share your wisdom with me and name me only
: >one mail order company who ships Dell Dimension, Gateway G-series or
: >similar top of the line product to Japan. I would be very grateful for good
: >advice.

: Bear in mind that there are numerous US government restrictions on the
: export of computer equipment.  This undoubtedly plays a part in the
: availability of US models in foreign markets.

Despite trade disputes, Japan is not currently regarded as an enemy of
the US to which high tech items cannot be exported....

This does make me recall when I bought a Japanese WaPuRo (first and
last) with a 286 processor.  It was regarded as state of the art, and I
had to call a US government agency in Tokyo to verify that it was
exportable to the US!

This shows how much US bureaucrats know about technology.  The 286 was
so buggy and so limited even in its day that exporting it to the Soviet
Block would have done the Soviets more harm than good....

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Earl H. Kinmonth, Kanji Users Service Operation (KUSO!), University of
Sheffield, Sheffield, England S10 2UJ